ChatRoulette, videochat with a random person — like Omegle with a webcam, randomly NSFW; YouTube has some great video captures (via) #

Recursive webcast on Justin.tv — turn your radio down #

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread — 1987 short film finally digitized by a fan; cameos by James Randi, Andy Warhol, and Whodini #

We love xkcd — geek all-star remake of the comic on the Discovery Channel ad #

Choire Sicha interviews Paul Ford, Harper's web editor — "YOU ARE THE STUPIDEST WEBSITE IN STUPIDTOWN BECAUSE I WANT EVERYTHING FREE RIGHT NOW!" #

Record Tripping — turntablist-inspired game samples Alice in Wonderland and music by Gorillaz, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, and Spoon (via) #

Patrick Stewart on Twitter, the Internet, iPhone, and games — simplicity, not brevity #

Help Giant Robot — raising money for another year of publication #

Shutup, disable comments on popular websites — related: Engadget disables comments and the Macheist team adds them to Daring Fireball #

Where We Remain — you might also like Beulah & the Hundred Birds, also built on Flixel #

Loudon Wainwright III on the Sound of Young America — very personal interview and great performances inspired by Charlie Poole #

Google Chrome 4 adds support for native Greasemonkey scripts — yay! #

Greg Knauss time-travels to visit his 1990 self — everything is amazing, nobody's happy #

Gnilley, indie game where you kill enemies by screaming — see also: Racing Pitch #

Ze Frank's Pain Pack — songs built from samples of people in emotional distress #

HacKey, chart popular keys in your Last.fm favorites — 38% of my favorite songs are in C (via) #

Kate Beaton illustrates the Gorey book covers — so good #

Echo Nest previews new APIs — the search_tracks method sounds amazing #

Bram Cohen takes on Freenode — even if the policy's dumb, this isn't the way to handle it #

How to Report the News — from Charlie Brooker's News Wipe (via) #

The Virtual Piano — way more fun than it should be (via) #

Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro — true to the spirit of the original, though more polished #

Comedian asks New Yorkers to carry him across Manhattan — 155 people carried him 9.4 miles in below freezing temperatures (via) #

Steven Frank on the iPad and a generational shift in computing — the single smartest essay I've read about the iPad yet #

xkcd's Spirit — NASA's own WALL-E #

Brandon Boyer asks indie game all-stars about the iPad — new music apps, cocktail-style gaming, and more complex game genres #

J. D. Salinger, dead at 91 — "Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." #

Rafe Colburn on the iPad and the closed future of consumer computing — I'm concerned it'll shift creation to consumption; even the iPhone was better on that count #

The Prisoner's Dilemma recreated in Mechanical Turk — gauging altruism and how priming changes behavior #

Anil Dash on geek attention on the iPad vs. tonight's State of the Union — a little perspective #

Apple iPad official promo video — starts at $499, unlimited AT&T 3G for $30/month; see Gizmodo's roundup and hands-on #

Nieman Lab's interactive calculator for estimating effects of newspaper paywalls — uses some best guesses from the NYT as an example, though 60% seems insanely optimistic #

David Cole on metagaming and boundaries in reading the web — thoughtful and cleverly designed (via) #

If Global Warming Is Real, Then Why Is It Cold? — cliche watch from editorial cartoons and the funny pages #

Directed Edge opens up recommendations API for free non-commercial use — the first recommendations service worth using #

Roman Cortes' 3D coke can in pure CSS — view the source and the can label #

App.itize.us — the iPhone app blog I've been waiting for, carefully curating underrated gems from the App Store #

Lookwell — new-to-me 1991 pilot starring Adam West, created by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel #

Bandcamp starts record "unlabel" with first vinyl release — no ownership over music, just recouping costs and splitting profits with the artists #

Wisconsin jail bans Dungeons & Dragons — the inmate was serving time for killing a man with a sledgehammer; a new trend? #

Confessions of a Book Pirate — a voracious reader, each book takes him at least 5 hours to scan, OCR, and proofread #

Weird Al directing his first feature film for Cartoon Network — he's writing and directing in the live-action movie, but will only cameo (via) #

Gnop — control the ball (via) #

Robin Sloan on telling stories with interfaces — riffing off the Google Search Stories ads #

Vanishing Point — I'm waiting for real-time music visualizations like this (via) #

VVVVVV — Terry Cavanagh's brilliant new platformer built around a single game mechanic #

CNN's 360° video of Port-au-Prince — don't miss the second and third videos (via) #

YouTube's Music Discovery Project — Pandora-style playlists based around an artist #

Caleb Larsen's sculpture perpetually sells itself on eBay — here's the currently active auction (via) #

OK Cupid's myths of profile pictures — more amazing data diving #